Trevino v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 911 · 1996
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Rafael Navarro v. Sherman Block (2001), Christie v. Iopa (1999)
46 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Blum v. Stenson · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · Carey v. Piphus
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Liability for improper custom may not be predicated on isolated or sporadic incidents; it must be founded upon practices of sufficient duration, frequency and consistency that the conduct has become a traditional method of carrying out policy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`(1) the issue at stake must be identical to the one alleged in the prior litigation; (2) the issue must have been actually litigated [by the party against whom preclusion is asserted] in the prior litigation; and (3) the determination of the issue in the prior litigation must have been a critical and necessary part of the judgment in the earlier action.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“practice or custom which constitutes . . . standard operating procedure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.